Any roadmap to when Firefly RK3368 RK3399 ?

dewet · Posted at 5/5/2016 23:48:24

Hi

There will only be am upgrade to RK3399 I presume.
Because RK3368 with PowerVR GPU is not open source and will cause problems with Linux support.
Mali released free Linux GPU drivers for Firefly RK3288 but Imagination Technologies(PowerVR) want several thousand, I estimate $50000-$100000 before they will even try to create a Linux driver for RK3368 as I heard from other companies.
RK3399 will be almost twice the performance of RK3368, so it is no use supporting a slower device when the flagship RK3399 device will be much faster and work with Mali GPU drivers that are much better supported.

dewet · Posted at 5/6/2016 11:02:22

sandrobilbeisi Posted at 5/6/2016 09:46
with regard to RK3368 :
the official Linux driver is provided as binary
a group of volunteers has ...

I think it's only for Android kernel not Linux.
Otherwise lots of people would have build Linux firmware with PowerVR support for Geekbox.
The binary blob drivers are only for Android and there is also no X11 support on RK3368 for PowerVR 6110.